Life Hacks 203 | Modern Wisdom Podcast 281

Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for another Life Hacks episode. Sit back & enjoy as we run through our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies & resources for a productive and efficient life. Expect to learn why I brought a potato to a podcast, my biggest productivity tip for 2021, how Jonny is generating ideas in the shower, Yusef's favourite journalling app, how to ensure you never miss your creatine again and much more... Sponsors: Get 20% discount on Reebok’s entire range including the amazing Nano X1 at https://geni.us/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Extra Stuff: Buy a Waterproof paper & pencil - https://amzn.to/2LkqHBm Be careful with 2FA and use Safari. Count down from 10 and breathe fast to wake up. Powerhooks - https://www.thegymrevolution.co.uk/index.php/brands/other-brands/power-hooks.html Miniature Taser to light candles - https://amzn.to/3rcDdlq Turn on music & do some mobility for energy. Have a sacred training playlist. Evernote Legacy - https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Install-an-older-version-of-Evernote Find joy today. Use a note taking app to always record insights from a book. Stop the inner voice in your head when reading - https://www.dummies.com/education/language-arts/speed-reading/how-to-stop-vocalizing-and-become-a-speed-reader First things first. Plan what you’re going to do on the night before. 6 Minute Success Journal - https://amzn.to/3r9KvXk Break large tasks down into single actions. Day One for Journalling - https://dayoneapp.com Remember that you are the common denominator. Creatine Tablets to ensure you don’t miss your dose - https://www.myprotein.com/sports-nutrition/creatine-monohydrate-tablets/10575029.html Blob Opera - https://g.co/arts/iKptTTA3QDaEm7bk7 Red Rising - https://amzn.to/3rklWHo Leave badges on for notifications. Upgrade to the quickest internet you can get. Ctrl+Cmd+Space for emojis. Get Propane's Free Online Business Training - https://propanefitness.com/mwbusiness Get Propane's Free Online Fitness Business Tips - https://propanefitness.com/modernwisdom Get free diet advice from PropaneFitness - https://propanefitness.com Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #lifehacks #productivity #fitness - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: [email protected]

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• 0:00Chris Williamson?

  Windows computers just don't work.

• 0:04Jonny?

  I have what I think is the best list of life hacks I've ever had. It is a waterproof notepad for the shower.

• 0:15Speaker 02

  Someone we know was doing lateral raises with the metal dumbbells. And between reps, he just dinked his butt end between the dumbbells. And that was game over. He just like stopped the workout, went home.

• 0:30Chris Williamson?

  It is another life hacks episode, tools, tactics and techniques for a productive and efficient life. We'll be going through some of the life hacks that we've found over the last few months, telling you what we think of them. And then the other two people are going to tear them to pieces. If you like the sound of them, they will be linked in the show notes below, either on Amazon or a website or even just a sentence. So Johnny, I've got a present for you here. I'm not sure if you can see that.

• 0:56Jonny?

  Oh, nice.

• 0:57Chris Williamson?

  Yes. This is a very, I mean, it's, it's burning my fingers. I'm having to sort of, so if Johnny, if you can just.

• 1:04Jonny?

  What I, what we all need is a potato prop.

• 1:07Chris Williamson?

  Yeah. Well, you've got one.

• 1:08Jonny?

  And then Dean can make it.

• 1:10Chris Williamson?

  Look like a real potato. Yeah. But this is a real potato. You're up first, Johnny. What have you got for us?

• 1:14Jonny?

  It looks room temperature, but I'm happy to catch it. So I have what I think is the best list of life hacks I've ever had in the history of life hacks. Are we ready?

• 1:25Chris Williamson?

  Big shout.

• 1:26Jonny?

  For life hack number one.

• 1:30Jonny?

  I think I've already told you some of this, but it is a waterproof notepad for the shower.

• 1:43Jonny?

  So I, I have the most ideas and thoughts that ever occurred to me all day happen in the shower. And what I do is like try and leave my phone within sort of kind of touching distance so that.

• 2:00Chris Williamson?

  Hey Siri.

• 2:02Jonny?

  Exactly. But that, that doesn't work because the, the sound of the water is louder or like gets in the way. And then you try and make a note on your phone with shower hands and it's just not going to happen. Cause it's like, you end up typing the wrong word. So I bought it off Amazon. It's waterproof paper with a waterproof pencil. It's a suction onto like a tile or glass. And I just write it down. And then when I get out of the shower, I pull the thing off, put it in my Omni focus. Captured. Turn showers. I reckon, I reckon we've generated revenue now from my showers.

• 2:37Chris Williamson?

  How does a waterproof pencil and waterproof paperwork?

• 2:41Jonny?

  It's like, um, it's hard to describe, to be honest. It's, it is like no other pencil paper I've ever used in my life. So it's, it looks like a pencil, it functions like a pencil, but somehow you're able to write on wet paper and it works and it doesn't wash off. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. But of course, this, I suppose this requires, so I suppose it's part of a general kind of way that I'm trying to improve my life, which is I'm so confident now in OmniFocus because it's so much better than Tic Tic, that I know that the only thing I need to do is make sure I'm capturing everything. So I have like a, a pad of paper for when I'm meditating, because that's another time that it happens.

• 3:24Jonny?

  And I have this in the shower and then I use like Siri in the car and my AirPods and I'm training and things like that. So it's ju- it's just a game of how, how do I ensure that nothing slips through the cracks? And the shower, the waterproof pad of paper is, uh, is the one I'm most proud of. Any questions?

• 3:44Speaker 02

  You've got quite a lot of use out of it so far.

• 3:46Jonny?

  Loads.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  You said you, you've like, I think you must have a really high density of shower thoughts.

• 3:52Jonny?

  So it's, it's, it's an average of like three to four things a shower.

• 3:56Chris Williamson?

  How long's a shower for you?

• 3:58Jonny?

  Five minutes. Sometimes longer.

• 4:01Speaker 02

  What, what's interesting is I've found shower thoughts correlate with viral tweets for me. So there's been times when I've poured my heart into crafting a tweet that I think, yeah, this ticks all the boxes to gain traction, gain followers, go viral, tumbleweeds. And then a stupid shower thought that you just think, oh, just next day you wake up and it's got thousands of likes and you're like, ah, I didn't, didn't really want that one to go viral.

• 4:28Jonny?

  Waterproof paper.

• 4:30Chris Williamson?

  Tweet from the paper?

• 4:33Jonny?

  Shower tweets, yeah.

• 4:34Chris Williamson?

  That would be good, like a waterproof iPad built into the wall. I do, I think anything that increases or reduces friction for capture is gonna be a winner. I don't think I have very many ideas in the shower, but I tend to shower on a night and you tend to shower in the morning, don't you?

• 4:52Jonny?

  Yeah.

• 4:53Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, so like by nine PM, 10 PM at night when I'm having my shower, like I'm all ideaed out.

• 5:00Jonny?

  So a few of these life hacks came from shower, shower capture.

• 5:06Chris Williamson?

  Wow, okay.

• 5:07Speaker 02

  Last episode, Johnny, you were showering in the night time because of sleep quality.

• 5:12Jonny?

  So I do after training, I shower in the night time after training, but not every night.

• 5:19Chris Williamson?

  Interesting.

• 5:20Jonny?

  There we go.

• 5:20Chris Williamson?

  Yusuf, what you got for us?

• 5:23Speaker 02

  So I've got an anti hack to start with, and the reason I'm saying this is because it might impact this episode. I've ordered a new dash cam because last time I had a car crash, my dash cam didn't pick up the footage because it was so old. So I got the worst of both worlds. And because it's over a hundred pounds value, Amazon have now started doing a one time password that you have, that they send you within five minutes of the delivery man coming and you have to quickly tell him the passcode. And then you take your leave and go. So the, the problem is this might happen now.

• 6:03Speaker 02

  So yesterday I was on a podcast with Johnny and Menno Henselmanns and the Amazon man was like absolutely going mental on the door. And my flatmate answered the door and he couldn't accept the parcel because he didn't have the password. You're thinking, would someone really like break into my house to take a parcel?

• 6:23Speaker 02

  To get a dash cam like it, it's, it's health and safety gone mad.

• 6:27Chris Williamson?

  So what's the hack?

• 6:29Speaker 02

  So the, the hack is like, yes, it's, it's a nice piece of security, just like online banking. But it's possible to lock yourself out of your own accounts in many ways where it, so.

• 6:42Speaker 02

  I actually am anti, I know everyone's all like, oh, you need two factor authentication and one time passwords and stuff, but I think it's a pain. The hack off the back of it is if you want to avoid that and there's certain accounts that you have to use for, you know, when it texts you a verification code and you have to type it in, is use Safari because Safari will auto pull it in from your phone and then you just put your finger on the touch ID and it'll fill it in.

• 7:07Jonny?

  Does that work with everything? So does that work with PayPal, for example?

• 7:10Speaker 02

  Yeah. As long as it's sent to your number. If it's sent to mine, then.

• 7:14Jonny?

  No, of course. But so the point is like, instead of having, because a lot of, a lot of companies have two factor authentication now, but I guess because cyber crimes increased, I assume because of the last year. So you can just get rid of that and do it with your face if you use Safari on your computer.

• 7:33Speaker 02

  You can do it with your finger. I think they're going to launch Face ID in the next generation of Macs.

• 7:38Jonny?

  Oh, okay.

• 7:39Chris Williamson?

  Face ID on Mac with a slightly more robust set of payment presets and address and details and all that sort of stuff is going to be so good. Matthew Kobach that I had on the show a while ago owns Fast and the goal of Fast is that you never need to put your payment details in again. So that's like a cross-platform solution for this. So you'd have your Fast membership and that would be across any website ever that you go into, it'll just auto populate.

• 8:14Jonny?

  Oh, that's cool.

• 8:15Speaker 02

  It's just a real slippery slope, but it's so convenient.

• 8:17Chris Williamson?

  Lots of people are buying stuff through e-comm and other online stores and they can't be asked to put their, put their details in. Right. My first one, this is taken from Eliyaz Yukaotsky, who is one of the guys behind lesswrong.com, part of the rationalist movement. And he was talking about how he encourages himself to get out of bed, given that I've had a pretty unstable sleep and wake pattern for quite a long time, getting out of bed, even during COVID, just sinking into a regular sleep and wake pattern has been challenging. And for me, if I get out of bed on time, when I said I would. Most of the rest of the day goes right. Whereas if I don't get out of bed at the

• 9:00Chris Williamson?

  time that I said I would, the rest of the day often tends to be a catastrophe. So getting out of bed, not staying in bed, not hitting the snooze button, those are all important things for me to make sure happen. I'm using two different sunrise alarm clocks to, because it's quite dark at the moment. So that's the first thing, but I've already spoken about that. Elliot's advice is to count down from 10 and breathe quickly with each count. So if you think about anyone that's ever done a CrossFit workout or any sort of high intensity class, the coach will look at you if you're not doing something and go three, two, one, back on the bar. And there's something about a countdown that forces you into action and gets you, yeah, exactly. Why? You counted down from three?

• 9:45Chris Williamson?

  Like, I've got to do it. Honestly, if you struggle to wake up on a morning, I was, I am one of those people, countdown from 10 and

• 9:55Chris Williamson?

  big breath with each one. Honestly, it's, it's such a, it's such an easy hack because you're, there's no way I'm going back to sleep after 10 breaths plus I counted down. And then you just throw the covers off you and you're off. Yeah, exactly. You're full of, full of O2 and the covers are off.

• 10:11Speaker 02

  So what, what I have a similar contraption, which is when, when my alarm goes off, I've got a spring load at the head of my bed, which flips me up and drops me into some trousers.

• 10:22Chris Williamson?

  Do you not need the dog to press that though?

• 10:24Speaker 02

  The, the dog presses it and the toaster comes up in the air.

• 10:27Chris Williamson?

  Jam, jam, jam hits it.

• 10:29Speaker 02

  Jam hits the thing.

• 10:30Chris Williamson?

  The potato gets baked.

• 10:32Speaker 02

  Exactly. The only problem is if you're out of toast, because then it'll ping up. The jam goes where the toast should be, hits you in the face, then it's the wrong chance.

• 10:41Jonny?

  I don't believe that for a moment because you have cereal for breakfast rather than toast. The rest of it was fine.

• 10:47Chris Williamson?

  Until that point.

• 10:48Speaker 02

  So you know what? The, there's a few little moments like that where you get rumbled for a little detail. Like someone went into my flatmate's bedroom and wrote him a semi illegible note. And he, and he came in and was like, you said, did you write me that? Hang on, you don't have a pen.

• 11:07Chris Williamson?

  Yeah. How do you guys make sure that you wake up on time on a morning? I know you're alarm free now, Johnny.

• 11:13Jonny?

  I know. It's great. So that's like the biggest win of 2020 for me was just because every day was so similar and there was no like, no social stuff in the evening or nothing to throw me off. Um, some, some of it is, is back at my girlfriend, to be honest. Like she, she loves sleep, whereas I find sleeping inconvenient. So like she wants to go to bed same time every day. So that's kind of my bedtime alarm. Like TV's off, so I'm not just gonna sit in the dark on my own. So I go to bed at the same time roughly. And then just having the same wake time every day for a year. And now like, I've even tried. So recently kind of tried to get a bit more sleep, tried to like push my, my sleep time, my wake time back a little bit and I can't.

• 11:58Speaker 02

  We need to get back her on the podcast. She's just got the wisdom of her forefathers, hasn't she? Like.

• 12:03Jonny?

  I don't think, I don't think she'd want to come on the podcast. I'll ask her though, if Chris wants her on.

• 12:09Speaker 02

  She'll be too wise to come on.

• 12:11Chris Williamson?

  She'll be, she'll be busy at a wedding. Right, Johnny, what you got?

• 12:14Jonny?

  So this one's, I suppose right now, not necessarily that relevant, but when gyms are back open again, I ordered. Um, so I don't often use dumbbells in training because a lot of the things I would use dumbbells for, I'm limited. Cause I'm so muscly and strong. I'm limited by being able to get the dumbbell in position. So like dumbbell press, incline press, overhead press. I just can't, like, I can't, I'm not strong enough to get it in position and then use the, um, the range of motion. So I ordered from, uh, like, it was like, there's, there used to be on Amazon, they're not anymore. They're now on like fitness superstore or something. Power hooks, which they're only like 20, 30 quid. So you could take them to a gym with you.

• 12:55Jonny?

  It's a metal handle that wraps around the dumbbell and then attaches to the handle itself and you hold on to it and you're able to basically unwrack the dumbbells as you would a barbell. So in a, in standing overhead press, you just hook them onto like a rig or a barbell that's shoulder height, shoulder height or unwrack it like a bench press. And suddenly dumbbell variations become.

• 13:16Jonny?

  How much weight can you use on the dumbbell variation? No shoulder injuries. Brilliant, brilliant. So they are like, they're like 20, 30 quid, put a mini gym bag and then sorted.

• 13:27Chris Williamson?

  What is your number one dumbbell movement that you've missed? Or what is the movement that dumbbells give you that you think a barbell can't? Like the most, what's the first place that you go to with regards to a dumbbell movement?

• 13:40Jonny?

  So for me, I've always found when I do dumbbell bench press, it helps my bench press, which I know like, obviously, but like, I'm always limited by just being able to get there. You have to like, get the dumbbells on your knees and then lie back and like flap around and then getting them off against the pain. So dumbbell bench press for me is the biggest thing and I don't like overhead press with a barbell particularly. It just doesn't, my shoulders don't like it, whereas dumbbells, because you can kind of angle the dumbbell and it's a, it's an easier range of motion. So those two, like the most obvious, that's why I bought them.

• 14:13Chris Williamson?

  That's pretty good.

• 14:14Jonny?

  Yeah, it's awesome.

• 14:16Chris Williamson?

  I like it, man. I, um, I really fell in love with seated strict press, seated strict overhead press this year. Um, such a good exercise because

• 14:26Jonny?

  Very nice.

• 14:26Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, you can just get yourself locked in, especially if you have a little bit of spinal instability like me and Seth do. Like you can just brace yourself against, so you'd have the bench at that one, like the first, the first notch that allows you to sit back a tiny bit. And then you can give your upper back a little bit of room. And I think it'd be interesting to see if you find that overhead position uncomfortable from a seated strict press, Johnny, because it's, um, it's a lot more comfortable for me.

• 14:53Jonny?

  So I don't have a, an incline bench. I train in my, like I have a gym in my garage and I don't have an incline bench. So I'm limited it with that.

• 14:59Chris Williamson?

  You've got dining, you've got dining chairs though.

• 15:01Jonny?

  I do have dining chairs. I've never thought about that, you know, but that, that literally would fix the problem.

• 15:07Chris Williamson?

  Well, did you not see this over summer when the first lockdown happened? There was tons and tons of videos of like, lads in the garden, aye, with like some unfortunate garden trestle chair. It's just a, you know, like a classic plastic barbecue chair and they've got themselves plus like quite a bit of weight. And you can see the legs are just going like this.

• 15:28Jonny?

  Oh, horrible. I think like falling with a barbell in your hands while you're falling, it just, it's awful, isn't it? The thought of it.

• 15:35Chris Williamson?

  So much can go wrong.

• 15:37Jonny?

  Yeah, I've seen people put barbells on wheelie bins, like two wheelie bins and then the wheelie bin lids came in and stuff like that.

• 15:44Speaker 02

  I think we've, we've probably had every possible um variation of barbell injury from like dropping it on your toe to like clipping your chin when you're doing an overhead press. That is awful. Have you ever done that?

• 15:57Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 15:57Speaker 02

  Or you bite your tongue.

• 15:58Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, that's bad.

• 15:59Jonny?

  Well, I thought of, I thought of you, Chris, with these, because didn't you, wasn't the source of your back injury a dumbbell clean?

• 16:06Chris Williamson?

  It was, yeah, correct.

• 16:08Jonny?

  So.

• 16:08Chris Williamson?

  That's three years, three years ago, that well remembered.

• 16:10Jonny?

  I don't know why I remember that, but I, it's something that I always, whenever I'm like moving something into place, I always think like, be careful.

• 16:16Chris Williamson?

  Chris hurt himself.

• 16:16Jonny?

  So, yeah, so like whenever you're doing a dumbbell overhead press, if you're doing like four sets, that's four, maybe more. So I'm actually doing like density style circuits with these, with dumbbells at the moment, so it's multiple sets of low reps. That's like 10 or 15 cleans.

• 16:33Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 16:33Jonny?

  That I would have to do, and I'm terrible at them.

• 16:35Speaker 02

  So it, there's a recurring theme there. Like I remember a few years ago, I've got a really crisp memory of me lying on the floor, like in tears. And Chris came with a care package of malt loaf and smoothie and it was, and like Volta roll. It was really, really heartwarming.

• 16:49Chris Williamson?

  Volta roll.

• 16:50Speaker 02

  Volta roll. And that was because, I think at like six in the morning, I had the 50 kilo dumbbells, trying to get them into place for a, a seated bench, lying bench press. And like, it's when you try and get it onto your thighs as the first step before you roll back onto your, your back. And I missed my leg and so I'm like swinging around with one dumbbell and I, and I felt something ping and I was like, I'll just deal with that in a second. Did my set. While you're doing the set, you feel your back just going like, you're like, oh no. And then when I put them down, I was like, I'm just gonna have to go home. There's one other moment like that where um someone we know, Robbie, was doing lateral raises with um the metal dumbbells.

• 17:31Speaker 02

  And between reps, he just dinked his bell end between the dumbbells. And that was game over. He just like stopped the workout, went home.

• 17:41Chris Williamson?

  Glanzo megalinegri, isn't it?

• 17:44Speaker 02

  Instant.

• 17:45Jonny?

  That would really hurt. Really, really hurt.

• 17:48Chris Williamson?

  Power hooks. I like it. Seth, what you got?

• 17:52Speaker 02

  This from AliExpress.

• 17:56Speaker 02

  I mean, AliExpress should be the life hack, actually, because it's a great way to just buy a bunch of tat. And I think I'm going to do a series on YouTube of

• 18:06Chris Williamson?

  Aliha.

• 18:07Speaker 02

  Tat I bought on AliExpress. Yeah. So this is a lighter, you know. So Chris, one of your recommendations a while ago was have a long lighter so you can light candles and stuff. This is basically, how dodgy is this?

• 18:20Chris Williamson?

  Oh my god.

• 18:21Speaker 02

  Can you hear that?

• 18:22Chris Williamson?

  Yeah. So can you describe for people that are listening, can you describe what it is?

• 18:27Jonny?

  It looks dangerous.

• 18:28Speaker 02

  It's a just basically, I think it's a taser, taser, taser.

• 18:32Jonny?

  It's a taser.

• 18:34Speaker 02

  But you just put it into the candle and it lights up. You charge it with you, USB C.

• 18:41Chris Williamson?

  Wow. That, that, I mean, only on AliExpress are you going to get that because there's no way that it's legal. I mean, what am I even going to call that? Like buy a miniature taser to light a candle?

• 18:50Jonny?

  Illegal taser.

• 18:52Speaker 02

  Like, I'm so tempted to just be like, but I feel like I might.

• 18:55Chris Williamson?

  I was gonna say, have you done it? Have you stuck something in it?

• 18:58Speaker 02

  Too scared.

• 19:00Jonny?

  If you don't, just do it to yourself. Just go out really quickly.

• 19:04Jonny?

  It's not gonna be high voltage, is it?

• 19:06Speaker 02

  No, but like, so what, what do I stand to gain? Like, I know it's gonna, it's gonna hurt in some way.

• 19:13Jonny?

  I think you know, you know where the parameters are and also content. Yeah.

• 19:17Speaker 02

  So knowing how much it hurts is a

• 19:20Jonny?

  I think it's good. It's good to know like the, the lay of the land, isn't it? Or something like that. Like, okay. I did that once. I'll not do that again.

• 19:27Chris Williamson?

  Yeah. Uh, okay. Uh, what am I gonna do? Right. So one of the things that I and probably almost everyone else have been struggling with over the last year has been finding that sort of gas and that motivation and that energy throughout the day, not in a, I need a coffee way. Or I need to have some food, more like I've been on my own in my house, working or doing whatever. And I just need to feel a little bit more energized, the same way that you would whenever you have a conversation with someone or have to get out of the car. Um, and especially Before a podcast, because I tend to record on an evening, I'm trying to find, you know, it's 6pm. I've maybe been up since 6:45, so it's 12 hours after I got up and I've got to do the thing where I peak perform.

• 20:13Chris Williamson?

  So what I've taken to doing is turning some music on, like making a miniature playlist of maybe sort of two or three songs on Spotify. And just doing a little mobility circuit of a couple of press ups, a couple of squats. You know, maybe some stretches for me, for my Achilles, some calf raises and stuff like that. Whilst listening to some music at a fairly good volume. And the difference with a little bit of blood flow, you'd think I'm going to move more, that would make me more tired. But that time where you've got brain fog and you know, your thoughts aren't really too clear. It's quite difficult to describe, but you know what I mean, you just feel foggy and not really sharp and on it. And, um, yeah, like five minutes, even just five minutes of that and a big glass of cold water.

• 20:58Chris Williamson?

  I think a lot of this, the unifying thread that we discovered was when you told me about your acupuncture mat, Seth. And you said, it's just a state change. You're just looking for something to change the state that your body's in. Could it be cold shower? Could it be sauna? Could it be a walk? Could it be some exercise with some music that gets you emotionally invested into it? All of these different structures, but this is one that you can pretty much always do no matter where you are. You can always go and do a little couple of press ups, couple of squats, some music on. And I feel, I feel better, it's not a panacea for low energy, but it, it works more often than it doesn't.

• 21:36Speaker 02

  I really like that, just a little kick up the bum and it's always accessible.

• 21:40Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, miniature little playlist on Spotify, like some, some good tunes from when you were a little bit younger that you absolutely love that are energetic. And then, yeah, you're away.

• 21:50Jonny?

  So my, I have a life hack, it's very, very related to that, a little bit different, but very related, so.

• 21:58Jonny?

  Specifically for like, so I think generally I underestimate, I think a lot of people underestimate how a song can completely like night and day change your mood, either for the for the better or for the worse. And something I've heard a lot of people talk about, but I've never really done is protecting your like training playlists. So have songs in your, have a playlist in Spotify that you only listen to when you're training.

• 22:25Chris Williamson?

  You have, don't you have a PR song?

• 22:28Jonny?

  I do, yeah, I have a few.

• 22:29Speaker 02

  The problem is if that comes on shuffle and you're like.

• 22:34Jonny?

  You've got to always have your belt on underneath whatever clothes you're wearing and you just leave it on.

• 22:40Chris Williamson?

  Picking up Janice in the, in the office. Sorry, Janice, how much do you wear? Hundred and two. Right. Brilliant.

• 22:48Jonny?

  Set a ten.

• 22:49Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:51Jonny?

  But so the thing that I've noticed especially is like songs that you, so I have a, you know, every, every year you get a a favorites thing on Spotify, like a 2020 favorites and whatever. So I have a, um, I have a playlist, which is all of the, all of those in one called just past favorites. So it's all of my, my favorites from every year. Since like whenever I got Spotify, like 2015. So it's a lot.

• 23:17Speaker 02

  You guys are so advanced with your Spotify use.

• 23:21Chris Williamson?

  It's what happens when you pay two pounds a month for a membership.

• 23:26Chris Williamson?

  As opposed to, as opposed to scolding it for free. Yeah. Okay. So you've got all of these and then what have you done? Have you made a top filtering off the top of all of them?

• 23:34Jonny?

  It's just that, well, so it's when, when some, when something comes on generally, like our occasion, this is my playlist and I've got nothing to, um, nothing to listen to and there'll be something coming like, oh, this, I haven't heard this song in three years. Put in the training playlist and only listen to it. And it, songs like that just create this effect that, and we've all had it, right? Like a song that like comes on when you're somewhere and you're like, oh my God, I've not heard that in ages. So I have a training playlist that you're always curating and always adding things to, but protect it because those, that effect is, it diminishes the more you listen to them.

• 24:09Chris Williamson?

  Have a sacred training playlist. Yeah, I like that.

• 24:12Jonny?

  You can do that with everything, right? So you can have a sleep playlist, a morning playlist, a work playlist.

• 24:18Chris Williamson?

  This is one of the things that I've been reading Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis, and he talks a lot about the sacred and the profane. And there's not really much now that people treat in normal day-to-day life as sacred. If you actually think about what it is, it's weird stuff, like, well, it's obvious stuff, like not being molested on the street, like your personal body is sacred, right? Like, obviously. But think about like other things around rituals, like even people wear their shoes in their bedroom, people wear the shoes they've been outside in in their bedroom, that would never be accepted in like a subcontinental culture, like. Oh, God, if you did that in a Muslim household, you'd get the slipper. Yeah, but the slipper wouldn't touch the floor. The slipper would be off and it would be there to beat you with.

• 25:03Chris Williamson?

  You have to go outside to the porch, take the slipper. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so I like I like having more sacred things, like having routines. I think that's part of the reason why we all love having morning routines, right? Like, it's sacred, sacred bit of time. Very good. Seth, what you got?

• 25:20Speaker 02

  So you guys might not be aware of this, but I actually split my life hacks into physical and digital. And so I'm attempting to to alternate here. My digital one is Evernote Legacy. So I'm currently a Evernote refugee. Evernote, for anyone who doesn't know, they rolled out an update that was basically a global downgrade to every part of the function of Evernote, and it's lost its fitness for purpose. And so while I'm waiting for another app to bridge the gap and allow import functionality, which for me, I've got my eyes set on Craft, I'm just waiting for the developers to allow Evernote import, is you can use the legacy

• 26:05Speaker 02

  version of Evernote. In the meantime, so the hack is don't upgrade to the new Evernote, even though it looks nicer, it just won't work. Stick with the legacy version, but the problem is that's unsupported. So as operating systems grow, there's going to hit a point where it's no longer compatible.

• 26:22Chris Williamson?

  So by by wanting to continue to use Evernote legacy, you also can't update any other parts of your operating system in case it gets it gets.

• 26:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. So this is this is not a permanent hack. This is an interim measure until.

• 26:36Chris Williamson?

  Can you downgrade? Let's say that I accidentally upgrade to new Evernote. Is there a way that I can downgrade?

• 26:42Speaker 02

  You can, but you might lose all your notes because yeah, this is why how bad it is because they've they've removed the offline storage functionalities. So it's it's just risky business. I wouldn't do it.

• 26:56Jonny?

  Hopefully no big Evernote fans are sat there with the new version of Evernote.

• 27:01Chris Williamson?

  I don't think anyone's a big fan of Evernote now, man, like Notion, Rome, uh, have just come in and captured the attention on the internet for all the.

• 27:10Speaker 02

  This is exactly it. Like Evernote have stayed so far in the past and it's such a shame because they were such a big company that had so much capital and, you know, poised to.

• 27:20Chris Williamson?

  Massive first mover advantage in the note taking space as well, right? Like, think about, do you know what it is? It's it's blockbuster to Netflix. Like you had it all. You had the brand equity. You had the user base. You had the the faith in the brand.

• 27:35Speaker 02

  And they go, I don't I don't trust this new internet business.

• 27:39Speaker 02

  The jazz tapes and then you go, all right, fine, but.

• 27:42Chris Williamson?

  If you cannot get it on a bit, it's not worth a look.

• 27:46Chris Williamson?

  Unbelievable. Okay. I listened to Johnny Wilkinson on the High Performance Podcast with Jake Humphrey and his scientific friend. And it's one of the best podcasts that I've listened to in a very long time. If you want to hear someone that you think should just be a hard guy, talking about being in the present moment, about detachment from the ego, about embracing your true self, all this stuff. And you just think like, hang on. He was a like a posh meathead and Johnny Wilkinson just sounds like he's done about 50,000 ayahuasca ceremonies. It's wonderful. And one of the things-

• 28:25Jonny?

  This is the rugby player, Johnny Wilkinson.

• 28:27Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 28:28Jonny?

  Right.

• 28:28Chris Williamson?

  Man, he's, he's fucking fully awakened now, like absolutely fully awakened. And the episode's amazing. It's one of the best podcasts I've ever heard.

• 28:37Jonny?

  Wow.

• 28:38Chris Williamson?

  Which is-

• 28:38Speaker 02

  What should we search for?

• 28:39Chris Williamson?

  It's Johnny Wilkinson High Performance Podcast.

• 28:43Chris Williamson?

  Also on that show is Eddie Hearn and Eddie Hearn, you just think as the same thing, kind of a Essex wide boy idiot with some cash behind him who understands fighters. Nah, like he's quoting Warren Buffett. He talks about how he understands his inner motivations from the way that his father treated him as a kid. Like the guy is switched on. He's just so many more layers deep than I knew. Yeah, both of those guys really changed my opinion of them in great ways whilst listening to them. But what I took from the Johnny Wilkinson episode is find joy today. And what he talks about is that a lot of people presume that happiness is something that they will

• 29:27Chris Williamson?

  get to enjoy in the future when they've got past the things that they need to do today. But the future never comes. Like joy has to be found in the moment. And one of the most consistent mantras that I've written as part of morning journaling. Morning journaling has been, has been just find joy today, like find joy in the thing that you do. So this morning I went for a walk and it's frost, like sharp frost on the floor. But it's really nice. It's really still. The sun's sort of shooting through the clouds. I haven't got my phone on me and I'm just able to be like, this is really, really nice. So this makes me quite happy. The, the sky's clear. I can see birds. There was a dog on the other

• 30:08Chris Williamson?

  side of the street. I enjoyed the dog, like just finding joy today and not presuming that it's a thing that you get to do in the future. Once you've got today out of the way.

• 30:20Speaker 02

  It's a really important point, especially for people that listen to this podcast. I think we're gonna, we're all gonna be more on the spectrum of deferring enjoyment and investing in ourselves long term. And it's quite easy to lose sight of the fact that you're still living your life right now. And so finding some kind of inherent enjoyment from things that you do day to day is really important.

• 30:42Chris Williamson?

  I think you're quite good with that, Johnny. Obviously, that was one of the big reasons that you bought a dog. Right. Was to kind of take you out of that neurotic sort of self-involved, business-involved mind and I'm going to kind of focus on another being and kind of just be present with it.

• 30:58Jonny?

  Yeah, well, it's like, there's just certain aspects of having a dog that you just cannot avoid. Like, it needs to be taken for a walk. There's no, it's not negotiable really. So, yeah, and it is like the automating laughing and happiness. Definitely daily thing. It's brilliant.

• 31:16Chris Williamson?

  Johnny, what you got?

• 31:17Jonny?

  It's me. Right. So my, uh, this hack is related to reading speed. But I should preface this with, I am now, big moment, drum roll, reading again. And the reason that I'm reading again, which is kind of a life hack within the life hack, is something that Yusef really kind of flipped the switch in my brain and explained to me, which is the power of things like Evernote, Craft, all these bits of software. I've never really had a use for them. I've never really understood, like, I just take notes and then don't refer to the notes and it's just pointless. But hearing Yusef explain this like second brain idea and how if you, as you read a book or as you listen to a podcast or

• 32:03Jonny?

  you're learning something that you think like, yeah, I'll need this in the future, then using that app as your searchable database for information. So I've now, when I'm writing notes about books and when I'm writing notes about like Q and A calls, I'm listening to on courses we're on. I'm writing it as though like, when I need this in the future, what will I, what do I think I'll search for? What do I think I'll type in to find it? So like this morning, Yusef asked me a question. I was like, I'm sure I've typed literally the keyword in and suddenly three or four notes that I've made on that thing get brought up and I'm like, oh yeah, I remember. That's already in my brain. I just can't recall it. So I have to use something else. So that means that I've kind of, all right, it makes sense to read now. I kind of understand why I'm reading again.

• 32:45Jonny?

  And a tip related to that that I got from Mark Manson, which you two may have already come across. When you're reading, you tend to have like the, the inner voice that's reading aloud. So you're like reading in your head and that limits your reading speed quite a lot. And if you just stop that, so if you just, so like when you're watching a film with subtitles, you don't read the words in your head as the film's happening. You just look at it and you've read it. And you can do that with a book if you just decide to do that with a book. So you just look at the words. And you're like, I've read the page and lo and behold, it's, it's there. So just, I suppose two, two in one. I've, I've kind of jumped the queue a little bit, but one of them is using something like Evernote.

• 33:26Jonny?

  If you have it as whenever I learn something, I'm going to put it in here so that I can search for this topic in the future. And what would that look like, that note? And then secondly, if you are then going to read from that or read as a result of that, just stop reading the words in your head and you read way quicker.

• 33:41Speaker 02

  Nice. So use something like Evernote, but not Evernote.

• 33:44Jonny?

  But not Evernote. Well, so you so have recommended Craft to me. So that's what I've started using.

• 33:49Chris Williamson?

  It seems at the moment like Rome is, is really sort of picking up speed, but I've never touched Rome. I've seen Notion and a couple of other things. What advice have you got for stopping the inner voice in your head whilst reading other than just saying stop?

• 34:05Jonny?

  I don't know. I think like what I, what I think of is if this, exactly the example I gave, like if this were a film and I was reading subtitles, I would just look at the words. Like when you, when you read things in normal life, when you're not trying to read them, you still read the words, like you've still, you can still understand the sentence written down. Like when you look at a sign, you don't go turn left at the next exit. It's just look at it and you understand it. You just scan it quickly.

• 34:34Speaker 02

  There's a tip from Tony Buzan about stopping this, which is you give your audiaphonic loop in your head something to do. So you either think of a, a tune that doesn't have words or you repeat something to yourself. This is an exercise. This isn't something you do for all of your reading for the rest of your life. But it's just to be able to learn that you can, as Johnny said, you can detach the audiaphonic loop from reading. And you don't have to be like the cat sat on the mat.

• 35:03Jonny?

  That's awesome. That's a good tip.

• 35:05Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 35:05Jonny?

  It feels weird because it feels like you're not reading initially. But if you kind of test yourself on the recall of what have I just read? It's amazing how like it took you seconds to read the page when it previously would have taken a minute. But you've still taken it all in.

• 35:20Chris Williamson?

  The problem I have with note taking whilst reading is that I don't sink into the content anywhere near as deeply. Um, and this is why for me, reading on Kindle and then using progressive summarization highlighting makes a lot more sense. Because you can just go through, highlight as you go, and then single batch process the entire book. Once you're done, uh, go back through and make the, the, the key takeaways. Plus, if you're using Readwise, which is actually, I'll, I'll just explain that one as my next one after this. Um, but if you're using Readwise, then they'll deliver them to you on a daily basis.

• 36:01Jonny?

  So I suppose the, the tip is more like, if you, so I see, like, I was explaining this to you, Seth. And you stuff's like way further down the rabbit hole with me than this stuff. This is, I'm just learning, but I see OmniFocus as like my RAM on a computer. So like, if something is said to me, all I need to do is make sure it goes from there and into, and I know that, I know that that system will take care of it. And then the other thing, so Evernote or Craft or Room or whatever, is like your hard drive. So I don't need it now. I may never need it, but if I have a findable version of it in the future, when I want to learn, when I'm like, I want to get more into meditation. What are some best, what are the best resources about meditation? I'll just type meditation into my hard drive.

• 36:47Jonny?

  And I'm like, oh yeah, I read a book six months ago about that reference something tiny that now I can make use of. So that doesn't really matter how you make the notes, I suppose, as long as it's findable whenever you want that thing in the future.

• 36:58Speaker 02

  That's a great analogy. As long as you have a, that as you start to build more and more notes, because I think I've got five thousand or so at this point. That's where you start to need a decent tagging structure more and more. And the benefit of tags as well as notebooks is notebooks are the hierarchical structure that's, you know, organized and you've, you've created it deliberately. But tags allow things to straddle across multiple notebooks because they are. Themes that are shared but don't necessarily fit into a single notebook. And over time, you start to build this emergent structure and eventually cross links between notes that previously didn't happen. And that's why the benefit of, that's why Rome has become so popular, because it allows ideas to have sex with each other.

• 37:44Chris Williamson?

  Or you can downgrade back from new Evernote to Evernote Legacy and just get rid of all of your notes and you don't have this problem at all.

• 37:51Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 37:52Jonny?

  Yeah, it's like the, the Men in Black flash pen, isn't it?

• 37:56Speaker 02

  So, so actually Thiago Forte, um, threw shade at the new Evernote in a tweet recently saying like, I love how the new Evernote is like replicating the human brain by like randomly forgetting certain notes.

• 38:13Jonny?

  It's like a true second external brain, like it acts like sometimes you go and find it's not there anymore.

• 38:19Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 38:20Jonny?

  I just can't remember.

• 38:22Chris Williamson?

  What you got, Seth?

• 38:23Jonny?

  So.

• 38:24Speaker 02

  So this one is a physical life hack. And this is the, what does it say? R C Pearl or something.

• 38:31Chris Williamson?

  R support.

• 38:32Jonny?

  R C Pearl.

• 38:33Chris Williamson?

  Is this from AliExpress again?

• 38:36Speaker 02

  This is actually from Amazon, but I, you can definitely get them from AliExpress as well. Um, and it is a retractable

• 38:43Speaker 02

  triple charger. So it has all three, cause everyone's got like a hundred little USB cables that are different end things and it's really, and you've got like a drawer with them somewhere. This just has three in one. It's a little Medusa and it's got the big three. So it has that one, that one.

• 39:05Jonny?

  So is that US, USB C, Lightning and Micro USB?

• 39:10Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 39:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:11Chris Williamson?

  And it's, it's on a little sort of retractable reel with ratchets on, so you can make it longer and shorter.

• 39:17Speaker 02

  It's fantastic, cause then it just tidies up your, your room as well, cause we've got those little devices, you know, like your little taser.

• 39:27Chris Williamson?

  Have you ever accidentally retracted it whilst the device has been attached to it and flung it across the desk?

• 39:35Jonny?

  It either breaks the device or stops charging it depending on how heavy the device is.

• 39:39Chris Williamson?

  I have to say, like, everyone's gone through a million chargers across their lifetime and I treat my chargers now with so much care. I'm just like, right, I'm not going to wind them up like hard. I'm just going to keep them as straight as possible. That device programs in the opposite to that. It's just stretching them and bending them and twisting them around.

• 40:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, but it's in a controlled way. But yeah, you're right. Like, we all know.

• 40:03Chris Williamson?

  I just wonder how long it's gonna last.

• 40:05Speaker 02

  It's, they've lasted like a year so far. But yeah, we all know someone who's got like a charger that's like held together with like bits of like hair bubbles and rope and like live wires like sticking out of it going like.

• 40:16Jonny?

  Well, having you, isn't one of your previous life hacks the, like, the putty that you put at the end of the?

• 40:20Speaker 02

  Sugru.

• 40:21Jonny?

  Sugru, at the end of it just to stop it from fraying. Because if you, if your Mac charger frays, it's like 50, 60 quid for you. 80 quid.

• 40:31Speaker 02

  That was with student discount. It was 86 quid with, without.

• 40:34Chris Williamson?

  Fucking, fucking.

• 40:35Speaker 02

  They've just, they've just got you by the curlies, haven't they?

• 40:37Jonny?

  They really do.

• 40:38Chris Williamson?

  The shortened curlies.

• 40:39Jonny?

  They really do.

• 40:40Chris Williamson?

  Right, this is the biggest change I've made to my productivity in 2021 and probably been the single best thing that I've done. And Johnny's gonna hate me because he's been doing it for ages. It's called, it's called first things first. So basically, what is the one thing that if I did it today, it would make the entire rest of my day feel like a success? And you just do that when you sit down at your desk. I'm actually gonna do, I'm gonna do a doubler here. So first things first is just choose what the highest leverage task, the most important task for the day is, that requires the most energy, the most input, and do that as you sit down. One of the things that I'm big into is trying to remove the anxiety you have of undone

• 41:25Chris Williamson?

  tasks because of an open loop. Like at the end of every day, you kind of shake the Etch A Sketch and you get to restart the next day. But each day you have to meditate and exercise and go for a walk and do the rest of it. And the longer that you get through your day without having done that, the more that your mental RAM is taken up thinking about the fact that you still need to do it. Whereas if you can do those things first in the morning, I've already meditated, I've read, I've done my journaling, I've got the main task for the day out of the way. The rest of the day just feels so much more liberated and you can genuinely enjoy it as opposed to constantly having this like future task that you're concerned about. So first things first

• 42:05Chris Williamson?

  is important. And this is related to Chris Sparks' number one productivity tip, which is, plan what you're going to do today, the night before. And he says that every one minute you spend planning on the night before is worth 10 minutes the following day. So what I've been using is the Six Minute Diaries new product, which is the Six Minute Success Journal, very similar to most other productivity journals, but I just prefer the process that they've got. That'll be linked in on Amazon. And just my evening routine now involves choosing the task, that thing, they call it big piece of cake, but it should be, it should be what frog

• 42:45Chris Williamson?

  do you want to eat? Like what is the most high leverage, uncomfortable, but best return task that you need to do? And I'm just waking up on a morning and I know what I need to do. And if I do that thing, even if the rest of the day is completely awful, it doesn't matter. So I've got this TED Talk coming up and like, planning for a TED Talk to go and do some time writing at like three in the afternoon is just bollocks. But if you've got up, you've done your morning routine, you sit down at your desk and you nail two and a half hours planning a talk, you're like, right, I've done it. That's it. I've completed my day. Now I don't care about these annoying little emails because I'm like, it's like dancing through a, dancing through a daisy field. You just feel like everything's already been sorted. So yeah, first things first and

• 43:29Chris Williamson?

  then plan what you're going to do the night before. And the process I'm using for that is the Six Minute Success Journal, which I think is absolutely awesome.

• 43:37Chris Williamson?

  Fantastic.

• 43:38Jonny?

  It's a cool tip. So I've got, I've got one sort of on the same theme as that. Um, a lot of these things for me, like tip, like productivity tips are things that I learned. Like the first time I read Getting Things Done, whenever that was, and I read it at the time, I was like, ah, stupid.

• 43:54Chris Williamson?

  Sure.

• 43:55Jonny?

  And then like six years later, you're like, ah. Now I understand. So with the, the big piece of cake, um, style of, of things to do, just like planning a TED Talk. I think we all have on our to do list, something like that, or maybe, maybe your to do list is full of things like that. That seems so large and painful and difficult that you just kind of never do anything with them. Um, so actually what those are in, in GTD land are projects, not single actions. And all we can ever do is a single action. So all we can ever do is the thing that is the, the one like, I'm going to do this and it's completed. So breaking something like that down into single actions. And then only looking at the one, only considering the first step of that project.

• 44:40Jonny?

  Is such an easy way to kind of always be nudging things forward all the time in your life. So like, I wanna, I don't know. Get some artwork from a room in my house. Like, all right, oh God. And then you sit down to try and do it and there's 10 steps to it. Then you try and do all of those at once, you're probably not going to do it. But if step one is. Ask a friend to recommend two websites that I can look at, you can fire that text off and suddenly. 10 projects are moving forward every day in little ways. And there's not really any resistance to it. And before you know it, they've all been done. So basically the, the hack is if you've got anything on your to do list. That you're considering doing today, that is a huge thing. Instead of that, break it down into 10 things, into the 10 steps. So if you were explaining to somebody else.

• 45:25Jonny?

  How are you going to do this action? What do those 10 steps look like? And the, only the first one should be on your to do list, if that makes sense.

• 45:33Chris Williamson?

  Hmm.

• 45:33Jonny?

  And that's, that's for anyone who's read Getting Things Done, that is just how David Allen explained it. 30 years ago, whenever the book was read. It's only just.

• 45:41Chris Williamson?

  We've just come across it now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's, um.

• 45:46Chris Williamson?

  I think one of the main reasons people procrastinate is that they don't know what to do next. So a lot of the time I'll speak to the boys that are in the office about an assignment that they're struggling to do. And they're like, oh mate, I was in the library all day yesterday and I'm here. I was in the office today and you know, I've got this big assignment coming in. Yeah. Okay. Have you made the document on which you're going to write the assignment?

• 46:11Chris Williamson?

  Oh, well, no, I mean, right. Okay. And it's like, so a big part of that, and I think me and Yusuf probably suffer with this a little bit more than you, Johnny, is to know that time dedicated to planning and reviewing is more important than time dedicated to the task. Like if you spend time before you do a thing, constructing how you're going to do the thing, it makes everything so much easier. And if you don't do it, it's basically a different challenge. It's a totally different challenge to try and manifest what do I need to do? And then how am I going to do it as opposed to batching? Okay, first I'm going to do this, then I'm going to do that, then I'm going to ring the

• 46:55Chris Williamson?

  person, then I'm going to get the paperwork, then I'm going to go blah, blah, and just doing that. And after that, it's literally just a case of some past version of you, yeah, step after step after step.

• 47:05Jonny?

  The next step from that is, sorry.

• 47:08Speaker 02

  No, just similar to the Chris Sparks thing, that is it an ounce of planning is worth a pound of execution or something like that. I definitely, yeah, I definitely do struggle with if I haven't done that, I roll into the morning like a PS1 RPG character that walks into the wall and then carries on walking and slowly rotates on that axis, keeps walking.

• 47:31Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 47:31Jonny?

  It's linked.

• 47:33Chris Williamson?

  It's just that we presume if I can get started on this task now, I'll make progress on this task now. Planning's taking time away from me doing the thing. You're like, yeah, but it's, it's deciding to drive to a place without knowing where the place is or the route you're going to take. It's just getting in the car and putting your foot down. Like, okay, I mean, before that, I should probably get the map out, have a look at the route, realise where I need to go, and then I can do it.

• 48:01Jonny?

  The the hidden benefit of all of this, that you don't necessarily realise until you've broken things down in that way, is that when you have like, when you're on a walk and you think, oh, I'll call someone, right, or like, I've got a bit of spare time, I'll call someone. And you've got twenty projects in your life, broken down into next steps, and five of them have things in them with the tag phone call. You can make five phone calls in the fifty minutes that previous you, well, like, at some point, you need to make this phone call, dun dun dun dun dun, and like five, all those things be moved forward. So it's kind of facilitating the, when you have, you know, you're sat waiting, or you're on your phone, or you're browsing Amazon, you think, oh yeah, I wonder if there's anything that I've kind of forgotten. And you can, you can filter through

• 48:45Jonny?

  all of the little tiny subsections in your life that when I'm putting the art on the wall that I'm going to buy, I'm going to need picture hooks, I'm going to need, so done. So it's just a way of like, reducing resistance, I suppose, planning and then making things easier on yourself in the future. And who doesn't want that?

• 49:01Speaker 02

  Everyone.

• 49:02Jonny?

  Easy, easy things are nice, aren't they?

• 49:03Speaker 02

  Lovely. Seth?

• 49:06Speaker 02

  So on the, the journal theme, there's an app called Day One, which I can't remember if I've mentioned it on a previous Live Hacks, but it is beautiful. And it's very much designed for journaling and diaries and stuff. So it bridges that gap where Johnny was talking about the RAM, which is working memory of your brain, stuff that needs doing and needs to be in the system, but isn't going to be stored long term, it's not going to be archived. And actually, if it was in your external brain, it would clog things up. And then you've got the archive, which is the stuff that you want to refer to in the future. But you might have this stuff in the kind of in between bay, which is reflective stuff that doesn't have an immediate next action, but is

• 49:49Speaker 02

  a way to kind of take all these thoughts and neuroses and patterns and things and just put them into boxes and clarify your own thoughts and manage your, your emotions. And that's the whole purpose of a diary or a journal. And I think, I definitely see the value in, in Chris's approach of like, having a handwritten journal that gives you prompts and questions. But if you're the kind of person that hates handwriting, And you want a free form thing, then day one is very good. The other benefit of it is that it's because it's designed like a diary. It allows you to, it it tracks a lot of data, but it's all held on your device. Um, in terms of location, photos that you took that day.

• 50:32Speaker 02

  It's designed to recreate like a tapestry of your life. So you can look back on it and it's, it's just quite a cool um way to be like, oh yeah, this is like a memoir.

• 50:42Chris Williamson?

  I use day one for more sort of significant emotional life events. Um, it's also like password protected, which is kind of good. So people can't just stumble upon, oh, I mean, to be fair, like my journal's not where the worst stuff on my phone is. But my camera roll's got some fairly awful stuff on it as well.

• 51:02Speaker 02

  So that, that's a, that's another one when you like, you know, you're trying to show someone like, oh, here's the um, the new wall that I've had painted. And you have to like scroll through the, and people are like.

• 51:12Chris Williamson?

  Look at my fucking camera roll, mate. Yeah.

• 51:16Jonny?

  So just not to kind of bow in and do the like, well, I was doing it before it was cool. I've been using day one since February twenty twelve.

• 51:24Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 51:25Jonny?

  So the, the additional, the additional thing that it does, which you, you two may have had is like, occasionally it'll say, read this post on this day from five years ago.

• 51:36Speaker 02

  It's very well designed, isn't it?

• 51:38Jonny?

  The, the thing, the benefit I get from it is like, you know, you, you go down this like, personal development rabbit hole and you think like, is it really doing anything? I'm not really sure. And then you read something, you read like the, the thoughts that you were having four years ago and you're like.

• 51:52Speaker 02

  My favorite thing, you look back on something old, you're like, what a twat, I can't believe he was.

• 51:56Chris Williamson?

  I think there's an equivalent to hedonic adaptation. It's like productivity adaptation, because you're always wanting to further refine the edges. And it's difficult to remember how bad you were. And also you presume that as you get older, you should be compounding your effectiveness. So you don't want to be comparing your, your productivity now to your productivity five years ago. But your mindset, or our mindset around, yes, around how you feel.

• 52:23Chris Williamson?

  And the thoughts that consume your consciousness, that is really stark. Like, when I think, man, I once wrote in my day one, I once wrote a major concern that the MC that spoke on the mic over the R and B DJ in room two at Riverside had left. And I was concerned that that was going to ruin the room and that would be the end of the business. And that was worthy of putting into into my like personal thought emotion journal. And now that I don't even know the name of the person that does that. Like, it just doesn't, it doesn't matter.

• 53:02Speaker 02

  It's not even a speck on your.

• 53:03Chris Williamson?

  Doesn't even arise in consciousness, no.

• 53:05Jonny?

  It, there was something I read, a guy we've had on our podcast a couple of times called John, John Romanello, talks about the value of having like a longstanding journal being. You just, you realize like firstly, brilliant things and terrible things come and go, they pass. And you have got through all of the things that have been the worst things that have ever happened to you. And now it's all fine. So like you can read back to how you were dealing with what you perceived to be the worst thing ever at the time. And like journaling at the time helps a bit because you get to write it down, I guess, and externalize the the mental talk. But being able to look back on that three years later and go, you know what, like if anything like that happens again, it'll probably be okay.

• 53:46Jonny?

  It's just a nice, like, tapestry of this is how my thoughts have evolved now. And something similar happens, I deal with it better. And so, yeah, I think it's a, and day one, I think it's probably the best app for it, isn't it?

• 53:58Speaker 02

  It's free as well. I think there's a paid version for extra features too.

• 54:03Chris Williamson?

  But it's got a partner app on MacBook as well, doesn't it?

• 54:07Jonny?

  There's all the links in. A little tab at the top, like a little bookmark thing that drops down.

• 54:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, I've only recently got the phone app, to be honest.

• 54:15Jonny?

  That's all like the, it's like music you listen to or is it, does it do that on the Mac app as well?

• 54:23Speaker 02

  Not as much. The the phone app, as you said, yeah, it's more designed for the tapestry.

• 54:28Speaker 02

  I think it gives you prompts as well. It's not totally free form. Like, I think you can, it can say, like, what's the?

• 54:34Jonny?

  So it's the, it's the phone app where I get like the, see what you were doing in January.

• 54:39Chris Williamson?

  Have you got notifications for day one turned on?

• 54:41Jonny?

  I have.

• 54:42Chris Williamson?

  Wow.

• 54:43Jonny?

  Full out using.

• 54:44Chris Williamson?

  To get, to to be allowed through the gate that is your notification barrier.

• 54:51Chris Williamson?

  Special.

• 54:52Jonny?

  I've got a, got a life hack related to that as well.

• 54:54Chris Williamson?

  Interesting. Deliveroo, I think, is the only, Deliveroo and phone calls are the only two. Your food is coming. Yeah, that's it. That's all I'm bothered about.

• 55:02Jonny?

  So the only things that day one notifies me about is either read this journal entry, which is always interesting. And like you can set the notification to fill the journal in to be randomized. And I think that's the best way.

• 55:14Chris Williamson?

  What you do, what have you done this week or whatever?

• 55:16Jonny?

  Yeah. And so like that, I just use that as the prompt. And if there's nothing interesting, I just don't bother. So.

• 55:23Chris Williamson?

  That's really cool. Yeah, I've got, to be fair, all of these, um, all these different functions I haven't bothered digging into. Right. Um. So this is one that I realized last year and it's a bit of an uncomfortable truth, but I think I'm really enjoying telling people things that they don't want to hear at the moment. So I got shouted out on the internet for talking about Trump and then I got shouted out on the internet for talking about existential risk and I got shouted out on the internet for talking about the single biggest predictor of extramarital sex being premarital sex. Um, but facts don't care about your feelings and this is another one of them. The thing that you need to remember, whoever you are that's listening, is that you are the common denominator in every experience within your life. So

• 56:07Chris Williamson?

  imagine that you always seem to be looked over for promotions at work. Or people just, uh, your partners always seem to kind of get sick of you after around about six months. Or your friends always do invite you out to things or you always are the first person that gets picked for the sports team or whatever it is. Both good and bad. If there is a recurring theme in your life, you are the common denominator, not them. So a lot of the time I'll have a conversation with someone. I had a conversation with someone yesterday. Who I regularly sort of spend, semi regularly speak to maybe once every couple of months. And the conversation always has the same

• 56:48Chris Williamson?

  tone to it, always has the same sort of feeling. It's a, a little bit antagonistic. So it's quite sort of debatey. It's a little bit self righteous. And, um, I remember saying like, man, like, is, is this how you are with everyone? He's like, no, no. And I was like, well, I don't have this conversation with anyone else but you. So it like in the nicest way possible, it's not me like I only do this when you arrive. So you're the common denominator within this situation. And it just reminds us that so much of what happens in life is within our control, at least with regards to our responses and the way the tenor that we have when we do things. So yeah, remember that you're the common denominator.

• 57:30Jonny?

  So if ever there's a theme, if there's like something happens more than it doesn't, you think, well, if it's normally happening to me, then I probably have some involvement in it.

• 57:41Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, I mean, imagine if, imagine if you always, if whenever there's a problem, you always deal with it. Like you're the common denominator, like you are, you are dealing with the problems. And the reason it's uncomfortable truth is that it forces us to realize that our failures are ours to bear, but also our successes are ours to bear. Especially if they're consistent.

• 58:03Speaker 02

  It's not a truth that a lot of people would accept or want to hear because they get more benefit from being the victim or the martyr or the, whatever the, the role that they're playing than they do from taking personal responsibility and taking agency. And I think, yeah, I can see how if you say that to certain people, like, oh, I mean, that thing always happens to you. It doesn't happen to anyone else. So maybe it's, it can be like, oh, well, no, because they're just all a dick. Like every boss I've ever had has been a dick or every.

• 58:34Chris Williamson?

  Precisely. Every ex-girlfriend has always found me to be possessive. Okay. Like what's more likely that all of them happen to have the same weird quirk or that you are the person that is causing it? I mean, the problem is obviously there are things that aren't our fault and there are things that go wrong, which are out of our control and that are unfortunate and unlucky. So the kernel of truth that this could have occurred once, you could have been with a girl who was an absolute, or a guy who was an absolute dick to you and said that you were a bunch of ways that you're not. That can be true, but if that continues to happen.

• 59:10Speaker 02

  Then with a higher and higher confidence interval, the probability of it being them becomes lower. If you.

• 59:18Jonny?

  There's also just no downside to doing like the the Jocko Willink, like just taking complete responsibility for everything. Cause there's never really like, yeah, it's it's you might make make you feel a bit sad. But like, at least you're trying to solve the problem and working towards a a solution or an improvement.

• 59:35Speaker 02

  That's a good point. Like even when it's not you, it still probably benefits you to just be like, well, I'll just take care of it anyway.

• 59:43Chris Williamson?

  Johnny.

• 59:45Jonny?

  Are we still on long form or we're doing quick fire?

• 59:48Chris Williamson?

  Uh, yeah, let's do a quick, let's do a quick fire. Also, if you've watched anything on Netflix or read anything recently, probably be a good place to throw some some stuff in here.

• 59:57Jonny?

  Okay, so I have some, I have some fitnessy ones, some quick ones. Um, quite a lot of people I know, myself included, are very consistent with like a multivitamin and vitamin D, but quite inconsistent with creatine. I don't know whether either of yous who have this problem.

• 1:00:13Chris Williamson?

  You have just described me, my friend.

• 1:00:16Jonny?

  So I have had this problem in my life for ages, for like as long as I can remember. And it's actually credit to my protein who fixed this. So they sent us a a box of stuff to review like pre-Christmas. And in that box was a tub of creatine tablets, creatine monohydrate tablets. That like I'd always looked over because I thought, well, you know, what benefits that? But now I just take five creatine tablets when I take my multivitamin and I always take my creatine.

• 1:00:47Chris Williamson?

  That's a good way to put it in because the only time that you have creatine, if you're not having it in tablet form is if you also have a shake. And you don't always have a shake every day.

• 1:00:57Jonny?

  Exactly. So I like, I very rarely miss vitamin D because it's like in the morning with breakfast, like multivitamin, vitamin D. And then creatine's like, oh, later I'll mix some kind of like squash and water and I'll have it then. And I always forget.

• 1:01:11Speaker 02

  There's more steps involved in creating. I think off the back of that, I have been more. Consistent with creatine recently, but that's because, one, I use creatine pure rather than creatine monohydrate, which is the same, but it's just more purified, doesn't give me the same nausea that normal creatine does. Um, which is again, it's like the whole James Clear thing, like if it's unpleasant to do, if it makes you feel nauseous, then you like, yeah, you're like, oh, well, I'll have it after my meal, not before and, um, and also mixing in hot water. So if I have a morning cup of tea, I'll have it before or after the tea.

• 1:01:45Jonny?

  I just can't, I just, the, the thought of putting like creatine in my morning coffee just feels.

• 1:01:49Speaker 02

  I wouldn't put it in the morning coffee, um, just have it before or after with a little bit of hot water, not boiling.

• 1:01:55Jonny?

  So all those. Yeah, the, the only downside of the tablets are they are quite big. So if you like, if you're not great with taking tablets in general, um, but I've actually found it's a nice, quite a nice thing to, to train yourself. So initially I had to do one tablet at a time. Now I'm just all five in at once.

• 1:02:12Speaker 02

  So when I, when, when Johnny was at mine and I ordered a big bag of carrots and he helped me put them away in the fridge.

• 1:02:21Speaker 02

  So that I could train that as well. Um, anyway, my next life hack

• 1:02:29Speaker 02

  is Blob Opera.

• 1:02:33Speaker 02

  So this is a digital one and it's, I mean, it's very, very highbrow. Um, Google have made a series of AI projects and Blob Opera is an AI um, opera thing. There's five blobs and they've all got faces. And each one is like tenor and soprano and bass and whatever. And depending on how you move the mouse or your finger or if you're doing on your phone, they do different harmonies and different, um, and you can actually produce some really beautiful Blob Operas. So if you're listening, search for Blob Opera on Google, have a play around and say goodbye to your evening, cause you'll be.

• 1:03:16Jonny?

  It's to make music, you specific, you produce the music.

• 1:03:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, and you can record them, send them to friends.

• 1:03:22Chris Williamson?

  Can you see popular ones that other people have done?

• 1:03:25Speaker 02

  I think you can. I don't know how, there, there must be a library of them somewhere.

• 1:03:29Chris Williamson?

  I've seen the videos, it's, they're quite sort of cute characters and they all go like.

• 1:03:34Jonny?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:03:35Chris Williamson?

  Like that, don't they? Yeah. Stand up straight and open their mouth. Uh, right. So I have been, I've sent this to a bunch of different people and I also put it in my newsletter, but it's going to go in here. Red Rising is a series by Pierce Brown, who is going to come on the podcast once he finishes writing his sixth book. But it's just every single person that I've given this fiction series to has become addicted and it's consumed quite a lot of their life. So please take care with this life hack. I am warning you now. Um, but Red Rising's, it's a really easy to read, very fast paced, engaging. It's, I guess it would technically probably fall under sci-fi, but there's a lot of sort of history references in there.

• 1:04:18Chris Williamson?

  And it's just to do with politics and backstabbing. And there's this guy rising up through the ranks and he's infiltrating different societies, but the whole world, very similar to the Harry Potter thing, the whole world feels quite encompassing. Uh, Red Rising, go and, go and read it. And the first one is, is sick. And then there's five in the series that you can get stuck into if you enjoy it. So highly recommended.

• 1:04:41Jonny?

  Nice.

• 1:04:43Jonny?

  Um, is it me?

• 1:04:45Chris Williamson?

  Go away.

• 1:04:46Jonny?

  When, so you probably heard one of the tips is turn all notifications off. Do you mention before? Like, I think you should have most, if not all notifications off. The problem I found with that, I don't know whether you two, I think you stuff changed to what I'm about to say. I don't know what you do with this, Chris. But when I did that, I was like, right, it's full blackout. Like, I don't want anything. I don't want the badge notifications. I don't want the noises. I don't want anything. And what that actually started to create was a, a worse version of the like app spiral of you'll go on your phone and you're like, look at your email. Like, all right, there's no new emails. So I think I'll go for that. I wonder if there's any WhatsApps. I'll have a look in WhatsApp. And then before you know it, you're back at email again. And basically turning notifications off, all that does is creates, well, I need to go and check when something new.

• 1:05:31Jonny?

  Cause there's no way, no other way of knowing. So basically turning all notifications off, but leaving the red badge on. Allows you to relax a bit because you can see, I know it's like you can see accumulating, but there's no need to go in and check. And with things like iMessage, sometimes if you open iMessage and it opens on someone's message, that's then, that's then marked as unread and you can easily forget about it. So for me, leaving the notification badge on, but it doesn't bombard me. When I want to look at my phone, I'm like, okay, I've got some emails, got some WhatsApp, got some iMessages. I can't respond now, but I'll look at them later, for example. So I'm terrible with replying to things. Pretty much everyone who knows me knows that I'm terrible at replying to things.

• 1:06:12Jonny?

  And I think this has contributed to that over time. I think not, not having the badge on, not having any way of knowing there's unprocessed stuff in that app, means like it's easy to forget. So that's really helped me recently.

• 1:06:26Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, I had notifications turned off fully for WhatsApp for a while and I've sent, sent and received millions of WhatsApp messages over the last few years. Um, from my, like for me, I still keep badges off. I've been through the, the valley of despair that you went through and now because I like to use the web app for WhatsApp, I like to use iMessage on my desktop and I don't ever have emails that are urgent, not anymore. You guys may, but nothing that I ever receive, if it's urgent, they'll ring me. And if it's not, I'll check in when I check in and I'll check in on my laptop. So

• 1:07:07Chris Williamson?

  I think this is, it's a really good point and it's one that I still, I do agree with. But I think I've found a, a technique that works slightly better for me for where I'm at at the moment.

• 1:07:18Jonny?

  I think you're even further through the evolution by the sounds of things.

• 1:07:21Speaker 02

  I mean, Chris's global WhatsApp analytics for total number of messages sent and received makes me want to throw up.

• 1:07:28Chris Williamson?

  It's actually.

• 1:07:28Jonny?

  You get invited to like the WhatsApp annual conference of like heaviest users.

• 1:07:33Speaker 02

  It's in like the, the terra flops of.

• 1:07:38Chris Williamson?

  Oh, here's a thing that I learned. The, um, entire internet in terms of the electrons that make up the data, not the storage devices that they're on, but the electrons that make up the data is smaller than an orange.

• 1:07:56Speaker 02

  Is that if you push them all together and there's no space between?

• 1:07:59Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:59Jonny?

  I don't know what to make of that piece of information, Chris.

• 1:08:03Chris Williamson?

  Also, if you were to write out on double sided A4 paper, all of the information that is generated by the internet every day, and then stack them up in a single stack, they'd go from here to the sun and back four times.

• 1:08:17Jonny?

  Daily.

• 1:08:18Chris Williamson?

  Daily.

• 1:08:20Jonny?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:22Jonny?

  I suppose it depends on how big your handwriting is, doesn't it? But either way, you get into the sun.

• 1:08:25Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's an effort. Seth, what have you got?

• 1:08:30Speaker 02

  I may have mentioned this before, but upgrade to the maximum internet that your location allows.

• 1:08:37Speaker 02

  Just like for the sake of an extra 20 quid or something, to have the fastest internet, like just think of the amount of time that that saves overall. Like all these little, all these little bits of time waiting for something to buffer or waiting for a page to load. And if that's just eliminated, like you, so this was actually from George McGill, when he was just saying you should always pay for more speed. Because if you can eliminate friction for stuff, then amazing. And now we're going to hit a point soon. Where this is no longer applicable for most humans, because then we'd be limited by the person. I think me and Johnny have talked about this. In terms of using Alfred or using software that makes you really fast at something when actually now it's your brain that's the slow thing.

• 1:09:23Speaker 02

  Which is great, like we want things to move in that direction. But that's why like the M1 MacBook Pro.

• 1:09:30Speaker 02

  It's fast, it's good. And if you're like a power user of Mac, then you will get the full use out of it. But for a lot of people, if you ever use the trackpad to like, go to the address bar and then type google.com and then scroll with it, like just don't bother with any of this stuff, like get a Chromebook until you can max that out. So I think that the whole. Moral of that story is like, whatever technology you use, squeeze the lemon of it and then say, right, I've earned the right to upgrade to the next level of speed. Um, just making sure that you're never bottlenecked by the technology.

• 1:10:06Jonny?

  So the bottlenecking is the big thing, cause it's like, the, so I have this conversation with people who think that Macs are worse than PCs and they'll say like, oh, well, I've built my own PC and it's got, I've got more RAM. I've got more RAM than you have and I spent half the money. It's like, that's, that's a valid argument until you have to restart your computer once. Because the app, like, yeah, the, the Microsoft Office crashed or it doesn't work. And it's the same with internet. Like, yeah, you save twenty quid a month and that might be, you know, great across a year. But if you have to deal with like a day on the, every day, a video that buffers for a minute. Think how long that accumulates. It's like the, whenever you bottleneck by something regularly, it is usually worth just paying to remove the problem.

• 1:10:51Jonny?

  And then you just never realise.

• 1:10:52Speaker 02

  It, it's just a, it's an emotional thing. Like I tweeted the other day saying like, does anyone have a legitimate reason for um, having a PC over a Mac? And all the answers were like, oh, well, if I want to change the, the graphics card on this thing, I will, okay, but like.

• 1:11:10Chris Williamson?

  They're all special, special use cases.

• 1:11:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:11:14Chris Williamson?

  If anyone does have a legitimate reason for using a Windows operating system computer over a MacBook, please leave it in the comments below. I'm more, I'm more than happy to, to have my mind changed about this, but every use case is specific. Like it just, Windows computers just don't work the same way as Macs do.

• 1:11:41Speaker 02

  Both. Like day to day, I probably use a Windows computer more in total hours than, than Mac. And there's just no comparison. I mean, in fairness, I'm using like Windows ninety eight or something. So.

• 1:11:53Chris Williamson?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:54Jonny?

  It's yeah, the reasons are always like, oh, I use this bit of like stock trading software and it only works. Okay, specific case like we're talking about general, general day to day use of just using a computer.

• 1:12:06Speaker 02

  Well, the solution is you, you, you give two people eight hours and a different device and you say, right, you've got this late, you've got this section of work to do. Off you go.

• 1:12:16Chris Williamson?

  Fuck, no. Yeah, it's not even. So this actually relates to the people who are on MacBook. Yusuf told me about this when I first got my Mac, I think, or when you first maybe Alfreded me by pressing Control, Command and Space, you bring up an emoji keyboard and you can select them from there. Now, Seth has gone one step further and put an Alfred emoji shortcut in, which means that he can do it directly from his Alfred dashboard, but presuming that you don't want to go that, that deep. And I, even though I'm an avid Alfred user, I still use Control, Command, Space. A lot of the time, I think, because I don't actually know quite the emoji that I need. I'm like, oh, this is an emoji that.

• 1:12:59Speaker 02

  It looks like a bolt, but it's, is it electric or is it?

• 1:13:02Chris Williamson?

  Not even that. I'm just, I want inspo. I want emoji inspo. So I'll have a little look. I'm like, oh, should it be an apple? Should it be an orange? Oh, is that a croissant? Like, do you know what I mean? I just want to have a, is that, is that a potato?

• 1:13:16Speaker 02

  There is a potato. I think there's a sweet potato now as well.

• 1:13:19Chris Williamson?

  There is. Yeah, exactly. This is technically a sweet potato, by the way, as well. So, sorry about that.

• 1:13:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, fair enough. I think if you want to browse the emojis, there's another app actually that does that, but slightly, slightly quicker called Rocket for Mac. That's like $3, which is worth it. It's very similar to the Command Space Control, just slightly more nicer interface.

• 1:13:45Chris Williamson?

  Interesting. Should we leave it there, gents? I think we got some in the tank still for, for moving forward. That was really good. I've written.

• 1:13:53Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 1:13:54Chris Williamson?

  Yeah, it was. Awesome. I've written everything in the show notes below. If you want to go and check them out, I will find some links for a waterproof paper and pencil and a miniature taser where I can. If there are any discount codes that I've managed to find as well, I'll throw them in too. If you enjoyed it, if you've got your own life hacks, just put them in the comments or DM me at Chris Will X wherever you follow me. Where should people go if they want to check out more of your stuff, boys?

• 1:14:19Jonny?

  Two places. If you're thinking like, oh, online coaching, those guys do online coaching. Their life looks so appealing. Propanefitness.com forward slash modern wisdom. If you just want some macros for free, then propanefitness.com use the calculator on the main page.

• 1:14:37Chris Williamson?

  And a new URL if you're just thinking about starting an online business or you want to learn a little bit more about how to go online. Propanefitness.com slash MWbusiness.

• 1:14:46Jonny?

  You got it right.

• 1:14:47Chris Williamson?

  I did.

• 1:14:48Jonny?

  You got it right. Yes, indeed.

• 1:14:50Chris Williamson?

  I love it. Gentlemen, thank you for this. We will come back. We will do more life hacks soon. It is a pleasure.

• 1:14:55Jonny?

  Thanks, man. Speak soon.

• 1:15:13Speaker 03

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• 1:15:29Speaker 04

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• 1:15:37Speaker 04

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• 1:15:38Speaker 03

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